The Professional is a brilliant short story by my buddy Alexandra Ringe. We usually don't run fiction in Stay Free! but for this I made an exception. I had to beg Alexandra and wait over a year for permission to run it, so if you haven't yet had the pleasure, you should read it now with the understanding that a battle was fought and won on your behalf. Many people have told me this was their favorite thing in the last issue. Others, moved to confusion by the raw reality of Alexandra's prose, have expressed their condolences to the author....

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